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With just 13 days left until the Nov. 6 election, President Barack Obama headed to Los Angeles as part of a multi-state campaign swing. Obama’s shortest-ever trip to the Southland included a visit to the NBC Studios in Burbank for an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Patrick Healy reports from the LAX tarmac for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Oct. 24, 2012. (Published Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012)

First Lady Michelle Obama is in the Los Angeles area Thursday for a presidential campaign fundraiser and studio taping.

She'll head to the Calabasas 25,000-square-foot home of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith for a fundraiser that's being organized by a group of celebrity women.

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Mrs. Obama is scheduled to make her remarks at 2:15 p.m. at the Smiths' 150-acre property in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking Malibu.

She'll also be in Hollywood to tape an appearance of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that will air early Friday morning.